Norwalk, Connecticut

This Colonial Revival brick building began life as the South Norwalk City Hall, constructed in 1912 on the plans by New York architects Joel D. Barber and Frank Bissell. When Norwalk consolidated the next year it became the headquarters for the entire city and remained so until 1988. When City Hall was moved across the river to East Avenue its parking lot just happened to swallow the front lawn of the Norwalk Museum causing a slide in attendance. Turn about is fair play and in 1995 the museum moved into the newly spruced up original City Hall.